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A friend, who taught at a rather posh prep school in the South, spoke
to me of the need for remedial English. When I expressed surprise that
it was needed at such an exclusive school, he replied, "Oh yes: they
come in saying "you'uns" and we teach them to say "y'all".

YOUSE appears on Figure 114 of Kurath's WORD GEOGRAPHY OF THE EASTERN UNITED
STATES, and is discussed (briefly) in Allen's LINGUISTIC ATLAS OF THE UPPER
MIDWEST and Pederson's LINGUISTIC ATLAS OF THE GULF STATES. McDavid's 1963
edition of Mencken's THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE also discusses YOUSE, and notes that
the Potomac River separates "the territory of YOU-ALL from that of the Northern
YOUSE" (p. 548).